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Girl Scout cookies
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Woah. Here they just knock at the door and say "donate" and you get nothing. Even worse, they put your name on a list and you have to sign. Of course this is to keep the kids from thieving on the donations but when you sign you usually can see how much the neighbors gave... So I much prefer the american way of raising funds.
Here's the way we do it in my circus tent...er...house:
Little lady gets cookie sale flyer at Girl Scout meeting and brings it home.
Little lady and mommy decide which "prize" little lady wants to "earn".
Little lady says, "Daddy, you need to buy 362 boxes of cookies. Mommy says."
Daddy sighs and writes check.
2 months later, Daddy borrows best friend's much larger pickup to get cookies, and drives them straight to food bank.
Food bank people say, "You again?"
Little lady collects "prize", plays with it, and then ignores it for 364.75 days.
Return to step 1.
Repeat.
Little lady gets cookie sale flyer at Girl Scout meeting and brings it home.
Little lady and mommy decide which "prize" little lady wants to "earn".
Little lady says, "Daddy, you need to buy 362 boxes of cookies. Mommy says."
Daddy sighs and writes check.
2 months later, Daddy borrows best friend's much larger pickup to get cookies, and drives them straight to food bank.
Food bank people say, "You again?"
Little lady collects "prize", plays with it, and then ignores it for 364.75 days.
Return to step 1.
Repeat.
I figure that any kid who has the nerve to stand in front of a Safeway store and ask me to buy her cookies deserves the positive reinforcement she gets when I buy whatever they're legitimately selling.
I look at a neighborhood lemonade stand the same way. Give the kid 50 cents even if you pour out the drink. The fact that they took the initiative to set up a tiny business, and will learn to deal with rejection, is behavior that adults should help them to learn and appreciate.
Just my $0.02.
I look at a neighborhood lemonade stand the same way. Give the kid 50 cents even if you pour out the drink. The fact that they took the initiative to set up a tiny business, and will learn to deal with rejection, is behavior that adults should help them to learn and appreciate.
Just my $0.02.
Agreed Tommy! Especially if they are selling cookies in the middle of winter in Portland!
I love the mint ones after they have been frozen in the freezer!
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I love the mint ones after they have been frozen in the freezer!
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+1, tommy. We are the "suckers" of the neighborhood. If any kid is getting beat up in the sales department, they just stop by our house to boost their numbers.
I bought another box of Thin Mints today.
I keep eating them and so "Thin" I will no longer be by month's end.
Oh well. I do it for the kids!
I keep eating them and so "Thin" I will no longer be by month's end.
Oh well. I do it for the kids!
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I'm with Tommy. You want positive reinforcement? I got yer positive reinforcement RIGHT HERE! 
And a note to the Girl Scouts: They're Caramel Delights, not "samoas". I won't even dignify that name with a capital letter
And a note to the Girl Scouts: They're Caramel Delights, not "samoas". I won't even dignify that name with a capital letter
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Gee, thanks. Now ya tell me. I could have save that pick for the drive home! :lol:
(I really didn't do the pick trick BTW :biglaugh: )
